Cult of Hockey podcast #4: On CBA circumvention, Tkachuk's slewfoot and other crimes

Cult of Hockey podcast #4

Here is the new Cult of Hockey podcast. Bruce McCurdy and I talk about Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan and his players deciding to practice on Monday after Sunday’s big loss to the Sabres, as well as that crazy fly on the camera, Flames pest Matthew Tkachuk, the value of Milan Lucic and Kris Russell, and the best and worst surprises of the new hockey season according to Cult of Hockey readers and listeners.

Just a quick note on the Oilers’ practicing on Monday instead of Wednesday (when the team will have its mandated day off): the fact that McDavid is part of a leadership group — in a high performance and highly paid world — that has had this strong response to losing is great news for the Edmonton Oilers. McDavid didn’t get to be the best young player in the world by watching the clock, he did it by working his butt off around the clock.

As for days of rest, well, the Oilers have had all too much of that in recent Aprils, Mays and Junes. If this is part of the so-called “culture change” with the Oilers, this is excellent news.

We dig into all this and much more in the podcast. Thanks, in advance, for giving us a listen.

P.S. Huge news (at least by our standards)! We figured out how to get the podcast on iTunes. It may take a day or two for it be searchable there, but it’s there because a techn-dork like me was able to download it by typing in the RSS feed URL:

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